Manganelli Palace Hotel

Very kind and helpful staff. Strategic location. Spacious and clean room.

The hotel is elegant, in a historic building, very close to the center. Spacious, clean rooms, some with frescoed ceilings. Kindness and professionalism at the reception. Rich breakfast served on a rooftop terrace, enhanced by the kindness and friendliness of Stefania.

One of the more mixed reviews I’ve ever had to write. There were extremes of both good and bad in our short stay. The good: Fantastic location - all major tourist attractions in a very short walk. Very friendly and helpful staff. Excellent breakfasts on the sun terrace. The bad: Not easy to find or park - official address takes you to a tiny side street with no parking whatsoever. You can drive round in a circle and try to park in the adjacent square, but space is at a premium. It’s possible to book, very limited, space in the hotel courtyard. If so, make sure you are in contact with the hotel when you’re close by so they can let you in. Otherwise you’re circling around trying to find somewhere to stop. Hotel reception is on the 4th floor. Ground level entrance feels like a block of old apartments. Not at all welcoming, dark and dingy. Lift is tiny, may have to wait to use it. Main reception is very basic and small. It works but, again, it’s not very welcoming. To get to some rooms you have to wander around corridors and take a different lift down one floor. To leave the hotel you have to take this lift up again and then call the 2nd lift to go down. It’s kinda quirky but not desperately ‘charming’ as it might appear from the historic building. The room was very basic, small, sparsely furnished and, in all honesty, the bathroom was awful. Mould stains all around the shower area that look as if they’ve been there a long, long, time. On balance it was ‘OK’ and the combination of lovely staff (especially at breakfast) and location outweigh the complicated stuff - although that bathroom made my wife feel ill. For the price, it works for a one or two night stay, certainly not as a base for a longer trip until they sort the overall decor out.